Table 2.
Twenty countries with the highest and lowest COVID-19 mortality rates and their PCR-test rates per million population.
| The Highest 20 Countries | The Lowest 20 Countries | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Country | Mortality * | PCR-Test * | Rank | Country * | Mortality * | PCR-Test * |
| 1 | Belgium ∫ | 845 | 121,891 | 173 | Papua New Guinea | 0 | 798 |
| 2 | Andorra ∫ | 673 | 48,531 | 172 | Lao People’s Democratic Republic | 0 | 2990 |
| 3 | UK ∫ | 664 | 186,591 | 171 | Vietnam | 0 | 2824 |
| 4 | Spain | 608 | 128,893 | 170 | Cambodia | 0 | 2896 |
| 5 | Italy ∫ | 579 | 100,954 | 169 | Timor-Leste | 0 | 1189 |
| 6 | Sweden ∫ | 554 | 67,495 | 168 | Uganda | 0 | 5133 |
| 7 | France ∫ | 462 | 39,868 | 167 | Fiji | 0 | 4461 |
| 8 | USA ∫ | 426 | 137,544 | 166 | Eritrea | 0 | |
| 9 | Peru | 382 | 60,747 | 165 | Mongolia | 0 | 8688 |
| 10 | Chile | 381 | 70,696 | 164 | Bhutan | 0 | 51,107 |
| 11 | Brazil | 361 | 23,098 | 163 | Saint Lucia | 0 | 11,494 |
| 12 | Netherlands ∫ | 358 | 44,588 | 162 | Greenland | 0 | 90,957 |
| 13 | Ireland ∫ | 354 | 107,707 | 161 | Dominica | 0 | 11,820 |
| 14 | Ecuador ∫ | 295 | 11,023 | 160 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 | 10,932 |
| 15 | Mexico | 286 | 5958 | 159 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0 | 13,248 |
| 16 | Canada ∫ | 234 | 88,515 | 158 | Seychelles | 0 | |
| 17 | Switzerland ∫ | 227 | 81,825 | 157 | Burundi | 0.08 | 563 |
| 18 | Panama | 227 | 40,384 | 156 | Myanmar | 0.1 | 1770 |
| 19 | Armenia | 205 | 47,718 | 155 | Taiwan | 0.3 | 3319 |
| 20 | North Macedonia | 192 | 38,771 | 154 | Mozambique | 0.3 | 1360 |
* Numbers per million population, USA—United States of America, UK—United Kingdom, VCT—Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Bold letters with mark “∫” mean no recent national BCG vaccination program for all.